Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:31:55 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer driver |
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Markus Armbruster wrote: > Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes: > > >> Markus Armbruster wrote: >> >>> This is a pair of Xen para-virtual frontend device drivers: >>> drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c provides a framebuffer, and >>> drivers/input/xen-kbdfront provides keyboard and mouse. >>> >>> >> Unless they're actually inter-dependent, could you post this as two >> separate patches? I don't know anything about these parts of the >> kernel, so it would be nice to make it very obvious which changes are >> fb vs mouse/keyboard. >> > > I could do that do that, but the intermediate step (one driver, not > the other) is somewhat problematic: the backend in dom0 needs both > drivers, and will refuse to complete device initialization unless > they're both present. >
That's OK. In that case keep them together.
J
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